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Plot Summary:
Set in the Summer of 1988 and based on real events, the film tells the story of East-German twins Isabel and Doreen, two aspiring oarswomen, whose lives are changed dramatically during a training camp at Lake Balaton in Hungary. There, the girls make the acquaintance of West-German friends Arne and Nico. The holiday flirt soon turns serious when Doreen and Arne fall in love. As the end of their stay approaches, Arne asks the inseparable sisters to flee to the West with him….
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 497
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Hungary
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Peas at 5:30 (2004)
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It all starts with a bang. The car breaks through the crash barrier and falls off the bridge. The lights go out. After that, he is not able to see anymore. His optic nerve is severed, from now on the young stage-director Jakob is blind. His life will change and nothing will ever be the same. Jakob cannot handle the idea of never being able to see again and screams at the only woman who is able and willing to help him, Lily. A rehabilitation teacher, she helps the blind deal with the darkness. Lily has been living with it since birth, she too is blind.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Streetheart (1998)
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Louise is living in Montreal, unemployed. Her sister Paulette often gives her a hard time. She only gets to see her poetry-quoting married boyfriend Julien once a week. She hangs out a lot at the dance studio in her building... Louise decides to offer an hour of her time to strangers on the street. "An hour of myself", to do whatever they want to do. But one hour precisely, that's it. This leads to many different situations, some funny, some sexy, some sad. Louise talks to someone who later turns out to have been an undercover reporter. The reporter anticipates a bad end for Louise.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Tod den Hippies!! Es lebe der Punk! (2015)
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1980: 19 year old Robert, fed up with Hippy phoniness and bourgeoise narrow mindedness alike, flees the German provinces for West Berlin. A tour de force through the glorious dirt of West Berlin ensues. Full of sex, drugs, love and PUNK.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 708
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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A Stasi Comedy (2022)
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East Berlin, early 1980s: Ludger is hired by the Stasi to spy on the oppositional arts scene in Prenzlauer Berg. But when he falls in love with the mysterious Nathalie, he has to choose between a life as a celebrated underground poet and his career as a Stasi agent. A choice that will turn back on him 30 years later.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 424
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags:
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Am Tag als Bobby Ewing starb (2005)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Cold Summer (2006)
Plot Summary:
The Wall - Berlin '61.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Never Mind the Wall (2001)
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Germany 1982: The country is divided into two parts. Nele, coming from West-Germany, travels to East-Germany where she meets Captain, singer of a band. They fall in love with each other, but the regime "takes care" of their relationship, meaning: They can not see each other again. Germany 1990: The country is reunited. Nele starts searching their lost love.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 519
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: eighties
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Prime of Your Life (2010)
Plot Summary:
A 20-something slacker girl meets a handsome rebel at her best friend's funeral. She partners up with him and through a series of cons, finds her path to independence and love.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating
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The Perfect Secret (2019)
Plot Summary:
Seven friends - three women and four men - meet for dinner. Everyone should put their cell phone on the table. No matter what message comes in - anyone can read it and listen to the phone calls. However, this leads to a lot of chaos.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, talky, surprise ending, captivating
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Sad Movie (2005)
Plot Summary:
This film is about eight individuals facing the most brilliant separations in their lives. The passionate fire fighter, 30 years old, tries to propose to his lover but every time he misses the chance. In the meantime, she becomes anxious whenever she hears a siren. Suk-hyeon intends to break up with her jobless lover, Ha-seok, and he begins an agency that helps other lovers to break up. Juyeong is mad at her son's troubles in school, but she realizes that she has little time to spend with him. Su-eun, with a hearing impairment and a burn on her face, falls in her first love but she doesn't have the courage to come out in his presence.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, captivating, melancholic, sad, romantic comedy, romantic, feel good, depressing, anthology
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Beloved Berlin Wall (2009)
Plot Summary:
Berlin, 1989. Sascha is a young East German border guard and Franzi is a lively young West German woman who's just moved into a flat next to Sascha's watchtower at the Berlin Wall. It takes only a slight mishap and a selfless act of chivalry and the two fall in love. But soon the Stasi believes they are witnessing the start of a revolt. This is the time of mass protests and East Germans taking refuge in the West German embassy in Prague after all. Franzi and Sascha have to find their ways to stand up for their love and strive for the impossible; to bring down the wall.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, captivating, semi serious
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Sun Alley (1999)
Plot Summary:
A group of kids grow up on the short, wrong (east) side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to one of the few border crossings between East and West reserved for German citizens. The antics of these kids, their families, of the "West German" friends and relatives who come to visit, and of the East German border guards, all serve to illustrate the absurdity of everyday life on the Sonnenallee, and therefore throughout the former East Germany.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: political, sentimental, clever, humorous, realistic, controversial, talky, semi serious, surprise ending
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Moscow Square (2001)
Plot Summary:
1989 is an important year in the political history of Hungary. However, Petya and his friends couldn't care less. They are about to graduate high school. The only important things to them are the parties, girls, making some easy cash. And of course, passing the upcoming exam with the leaked questions.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, humorous, realistic
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Sushi in Suhl (2012)
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One evening in the mid-sixties, Rolf Anschütz, a chef who runs a small restaurant in a town called Suhl in the middle of the East German province of Thuringen offers his guests a unique and exotic meal - Japanese Sukiyaki. It was intent to be a surprise for some of his best customers and it became a great success. Even the local paper wrote about it - and this should change the life of Rolf Anschütz forever. A couple of days after the "event" a real Japanese turned up at the restaurant and demanded the same meal again. From this moment there was no way back. The Japanese loved Rolf Anschütz cooking and his restaurant "Der Waffenschmied" (Gunsmith) soon was honored as the place which offered the best and most authentic Japanese cuisine outside Japan. In the shortest time the Japanese have accepted Rolf Anschütz as one theirs. They celebrate the Authenzität of his kitchen and the "original" Japanese washing rituals before the meals would be served. First diplomats, later Japanese.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exotic
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The Red Cockatoo (2006)
Plot Summary:
A coming-of-age story set in Germany in the 1960s. Siggi becomes involved in a love triangle when he falls for Luise, but the tightening political climate forces him to make a fateful decision.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 870
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic
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Open the Wall (2014)
Plot Summary:
A lighthearted look at the opening of the border crossing of Bornholmer Straße in Berlin from the point of view of the confused border guards.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 858
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, humorous, captivating, light
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Adam & Evelyn (2018)
Plot Summary:
Summer 1989, East Germany. Adam works as a tailor, Evelyn as a waitress. They are planning a vacation together when Evelyn finds out that Adam is cheating on her and decides to leave for the holiday on her own.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, emotional, melancholic, talky
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Love Is Love Is Love (2020)
Plot Summary:
Three stories that explore love, commitment, and loyalty between couples and friends. "Two for Dinner" where a married couple temporarily living in two different locations are more separated than they think. "Sailing Lesson" about a long-married couple who spend a day on a sailboat rekindling their romance… and unexpected events arise. "Late Lunch" where a young woman who recently lost her mother gathers together a group of her mother’s friends to share memories, with surprising revelations.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: funny, light, sincere, romantic, captivating, romantic drama, entertaining
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Love Circles (1985)
Plot Summary:
French erotic auteur Gerard Kikoine makes the world his canvas in this sexy roundelay of intimate encounters across the globe. Following a pack of cigarettes that ends up with partner after partner, the film moves from Paris to Rome, Cannes, Hong Kong, Los Angeles and New York, exposing carnal couplings that take place everywhere from a furniture store to an airplane cockpit. Marie-France, Sophie Berger and Josephine Jacqueline Jones co-star.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Jane Wants a Boyfriend (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young woman with Asperger's tries to find her first boyfriend with a little help from her older sister.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: romantic, emotional, humorous, captivating, funny, romantic comedy, independent film, fun
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Love at 16 (2004)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere in the Greek provinces, in the '80s. The story revolves around a group of 15-year-olds. The main characters of that group, ALEXIS and ANTIGONI, as well as their parents, their relatives and friends are depicted in the movie, creating a fresco of a Greek village. Antigoni and her family have recently moved to the village. There, Antigoni is bound to turn upside down the world of Alexis and his friends'. Alexis, who is a dreamer, is fascinated by her revolutionary temperament and soon falls in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece, Cyprus
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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The Four of Us (2021)
Plot Summary:
After their partner swap experiment takes a turn, four friends arrive at a remote beach hut to face the fallout and purge themselves of deeper truths.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, semi serious
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Berlin Blues (2003)
Plot Summary:
In October 1989, the part of the West Berlin borough of Kreuzberg called SO 36, had been largely shut off by the Wall from the rest of the city for 28 years. A lethargic sub-culture of students, artists, bohemians and barflys had flourished among crumbling buildings. Part of that microcosm is barkeeper Frank, semi-formally called 'Herr Lehmann' by friends and patrons. He hangs out drinking, sports utter disregard for anything beyond SO 36 and lazily pursues an affair with cook Katrin. His lifestyle is gradually disturbed, when his parents show up for a visit, things go awry with Katrin and his best friend Karl starts to act strange. Meanwhile, political turmoil mounts on the other side of the Wall.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: cynical, atmospheric, bleak, melancholic, semi serious, stylized, depressing, political, social, clever
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Shores of Hope (2012)
Plot Summary:
In this vivid historical drama set in 1980s East Germany, two dockworkers and best friends who dream of escaping the repressive regime are forced to choose their loyalties when the state police promise them safe passage out of the country — if they inform on their co-workers and union leader.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 551
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, tense
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Learning to Lie (2003)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
Plot Summary:
An affectionate and refreshing East/West-Germany comedy about a boy who’s mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell and when she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happen (since she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 151000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: political, humorous, sentimental, witty, touching, feel good, comedy drama, clever, offbeat, realistic
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Games of Love and Chance (2003)
Plot Summary:
The life of a band of teenager in a suburb near Paris. But instead of showing what would be the "urban legend" of this kind of poor suburb (violence, rapes...), Abdelatif Kechiche shows us what's the daily life of those guys: not much to do, not much dreams. Still, some of them have fun rehearsing for a play. Among those "players", Lydia, long time friend of Krimo... And Krimo, a bit shy, finds himself in love with this joyful girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: slang, touching, semi serious, sincere, humorous, realistic, anthology, crying, multicultural
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The Buddy System (1984)
Plot Summary:
A quiet school truant officer, Joe, uncovers a young boy's attempt to fake a residential address, and subsequently gets involved romantically with the boy's mother. The truant officer waffles between a sadistic relationship with his on-again, off-again girlfriend and the mother. When one of the officer's inventions takes off, he chooses the girl and shatters the friendship with the boy and his mother. Only at the last possible moment does he figure out what he's sacrificed, and attempts to get it back.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Hotel de Love (1996)
Plot Summary:
10 years ago at a party, Steven thinks he sees the girl of his dreams, Melissa. Just as he's about to make his move, his twin brother Rick gets to her first and they fall in love. Steven watches his brother's relationship bloom, longing for Melissa all the while. Eventually, Melissa leaves to go to college and the brothers go on with their lives. Steven becomes a workaholic to block out his feelings about Melissa and Rick becomes a spineless bellboy at the Hotel de Love, after a later girl friend stood him up at the altar. Enter Steven and Rick's warring parents visiting the Hotel de Love for their anniversary. Re-enter Melissa with her current boyfriend, Norman. Suddenly Rick and Steven have a second chance at Melissa. Also there's Alison the palm reader, Susie behind the counter, the owner/piano player, and the freshly married couple.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 669
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, funny, light, romantic
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Good Old Daze (1994)
Plot Summary:
Ten years after their Upper Sixth, Bruno, Momo, Leon and Alain meet together in the waiting room of a maternity hospital. The father of the awaited baby is Tomasi, their best friend at that time, who died one month before due to an overdose. They remember their teenage, their laughs, their dreams, their stupid pranks... a description of the French youth in the middle of the seventies.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, humorous, realistic, witty, non-linear, semi serious, feel good, cult film